Written, Oral and Visual Communication: Communicate effectively in writing, orally and/or visually using traditional and/or modern information resources and supporting technology.
Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning: Locate, identify, collect, and organize data in order to thenanalyze, interpret or evaluate it using mathematical skills and/or the scientific method.
Critical Thinking:Differentiate between facts, influences, opinions, and assumptions toreach reasoned and supportable conclusions.
Problem Solving: Recognize and identify the components of a problem or issue, look at itfrom multiple perspectivesand investigate ways to resolve it.
Information Literacy: Formulate strategies to locate, evaluate and apply information from a variety of sources - print and/or electronic.
Environmental Landscaping: A.S. and Transfer and Certificate of Achievement and many skills certificates
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First: Please rank on a scale of 1 to 5 (5=high) - how important each of these general outcomes are to the various parts of their areas in a matrix as follows:
Effective
Communication
Scientific or
Quantitative
Reasoning
Critical
Thinking
Problem
Solving
Information
Literacy
Environmental Landscaping
NEXT: Look at what your discipline has written previously about Discipline specific SLOs. How do these compare to each of the general college learning outcomes above?
Students should acquire a set of defined skills in landscaping and gardening that allows them to quality for jobs in the industry.
Students should acquire a basic set of knowledge in horticulture that allows them to continue building their competencies in this field or start a new career path.
Students should develop an understanding of their positive role in participating through their careers and life in well being of society.
--- Discipline Problem Solving and Critical Thinking SLO (from 2005) Where does this SLO fit in with the general ones?
In the Environmental Landscaping Department we design our classes and curriculum to train our students to solve problems as professionals in Environmental Landscaping do in light of current developments in technology and society. We teach our students how to creatively address situations in gardens and landscapes, identify, select and describe factors that contribute to their design, installation and maintenance following sustainable guidelines.
Think about how these programmatic SLOs relate to the College Learning Outcomes above. Feel free to edit, expand or change them. Try to make a program SLO for each College Learning Outcome with scores of 3 or higher on the matrix.
Environmental Landscaping
College Learning Outcomes:
Links to each sub-section
Environmental Landscaping: CTE_E_ELNDList of degrees and certificates in each area
Environmental Landscaping: A.S. and Transfer and Certificate of Achievement and many skills certificatesDON'T FORGET TO SAVE!!!
First: Please rank on a scale of 1 to 5 (5=high) - how important each of these general outcomes are to the various parts of their areas in a matrix as follows:Communication
Quantitative
Reasoning
Thinking
Solving
Literacy
Program Review 2007:
Program Review 2009-2010:
--- Discipline Problem Solving and Critical Thinking SLO (from 2005) Where does this SLO fit in with the general ones?
In the Environmental Landscaping Department we design our classes and curriculum to train our students to solve problems as professionals in Environmental Landscaping do in light of current developments in technology and society. We teach our students how to creatively address situations in gardens and landscapes, identify, select and describe factors that contribute to their design, installation and maintenance following sustainable guidelines.
Think about how these programmatic SLOs relate to the College Learning Outcomes above. Feel free to edit, expand or change them. Try to make a program SLO for each College Learning Outcome with scores of 3 or higher on the matrix.